He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
WALTER SCOTTRecollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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